Word: spotlighting
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...Sociology Department also broke a dry spell, luring Aage B. Sorenson to Cambridge from the University of Wisconsin. Sorenson was the first professor to accept a department offer in seven tries. Still, the sometimes controversial department seems destined to remain in the spotlight--at least for a while--as President Bok still must make up his mind about granting tenure to Theda Skecpol, who was refused tenure and then filed a successful sex discrimination grievance suit three years...
Perhaps in the end, Boutilier says, that's what she'll remember most about her seasons out of the sun and out of the spotlight of a championship team...
...upsurge in women officeholders, the political pipeline should be brimming with potentially competitive Democratic women, few of whom are household names now. Missouri State Senator Harriett Woods, 56, who in 1982 narrowly lost her bid for the U.S. Senate to Republican Incumbent John Danforth, is moving into the national spotlight again with a race for Lieutenant Governor. In Oklahoma, four-term State Representative Cleta Deatherage Mitch ell, 33, caught the eye of national Democratic officials with her savvy performance as a member of the party's Hunt commission on delegate selection. In 18 months as Texas state treasurer...
...RESULT, Flynn, Dukakis, and Law--who, as archbishop, will prove to be a crucial figure in improving race relations in coming years--should focus their political and moral spotlight on institutional racism in Boston. The Globe put it succinctly and bluntly. "Boston today is the most difficult place in America for a Black person to hold a job or earn a promotion...
...with one of the poorest major cities in the country. Whites are not well off either, and Flynn has wirely couched his rhetoric in communal rather than divisive terms. He must step up efforts to bring black leaders like Mel King and City Councilor Bruce C. Bolling into the spotlight. King, who won about 20 percent of the white vote in an inspired but unsuccessful bid for mayor, will continue to be a force for change in the city, and Flynn should again encourage him to join...